I had the same problem with Gutsy and Asrock 945G-DVI but not with the Asus A2M-VM motherboard which has the same Realtek NIC.
POSSIBLE WORKAROUND: For Asrock I tried everything, disabling acpi, updating BIOS and adding irqpoll to grub. Then again I disabled ACPI HPET-table from BIOS. It did not help by itself but when I added a bogus line (eth1 without auto eth1) to the "/etc/network/interfaces" the card started to work perfectly. Only thing is that now the computer does not shutdown correctly (it just displays 102.957386 Power down). So I have to shut it down from power button. my "/etc/network/interfaces" # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface iface eth0 inet static address 199.111.1.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 199.111.1.1 auto eth0 # The secondary network interface iface eth1 inet static #this is just bogus, I don't have another nic address 199.111.1.100 #this is just bogus, I don't have another nic netmask 255.255.255.0 #this is just bogus, I don't have another nic gateway 199.111.1.1#this is just bogus, I don't have another nic -- RTL-8029: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/87078 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
